Dems Prevail in Net Fight

PUB. DATE

November 2011

SOURCE

Multichannel News;11/14/2011, Vol. 32 Issue 43, p3

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article reports that U.S. Democrats held a procedural voting to not bring a resolution to block the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) network-neutrality rules, to restrict the Republicans efforts to invalidate them using the Congressional Review Act. It is mentioned that in 2004 Republicans called the decision to codify the FCC's Internet openness principles an unnecessary innovation.

ACCESSION #

69611964

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